A while ago we had an add URL page but it was better at catching low quality pages than pages we wanted to index. We are considering ways to enable it again without that issue.
I don't really have any favourites, except Mojeek of course. But I've always used multiple search engines and rarely perform a search on just one.
We have provided our results to multiple metasearch engines over the years and currently provide them to a number of people for various uses. It's not our main focus right now, but could well become as time goes on.
We're at a very early stage with our new ad platform and we have a select number of testers helping us to improve it. So far, we're very happy with the interest that's been shown in it. Our current financials are good and I've tried to only move onto the next stages when I felt it was achievable, so right now we're stable.
Did you reload the error message page twice? That should fix it, if not please try searching from the homepage and let me know if neither works, thanks.
It's a very good idea and I definitely should do it anyway.
Most of the 500ms is generating the snippet, the search itself is usually much quicker. The search is effected by the load more than generating the snippet though. I'll try and get it all written down.
Thanks, really appreciate the feedback! HN is actually my most frequented site, I just don't talk much!
I did see that post at the time but will read it again. Index limitation is basically just lack of servers, funds, etc.
Currently we're doing a full index search for every query and so know the exact amount of hits within our index. This might change in the future though and become "about".
No databases except for what I've written myself. It started as a hobby so everything was from scratch from the beginning and just continued that way.
Yes thanks that's a very good idea. I'll try and put something together.
I'll most likely be changing the preferences back to a more traditional yes/no soon! It was meant as a clear setting and use whatever the default is for future searches (which may change).
Yes the results will be cached for up to 1 hour which is why subsequent searches didn't take as long.
I'm limited to how much I can index, so ZIP files have been skipped for now.
Hi, if you click the more results from news.ycombinator.com it is there but for some reason the submit page is pushing it down a place. I'll look into it, thanks.
Hi, I started developing Mojeek way before DuckDuckGo as a hobby project. We also have our own search index unlike DDG, which I've only more recently had the funds to start growing.
Hi I'm Marc the developer of Mojeek. Sorry about this, I'm aware it's happening too often and will look into it. If you press refresh twice without doing anything else that should fix it.
We originally seeded it with URLs from DMOZ. Now we have our own page weight that in combination with modified dates decides what is crawled and when.